Archive | August, 2012

My wife grew up in Lithuania when it was part of the Soviet Union, so she had plenty of opportunity to observe the new Soviet man that the ideologists of the Communist Party thought they had created in their planned society. She was not impressed and nor were the rest of the Soviet people. Popular culture and specifically anti-Soviet jokes, […]

This morning I congratulated a client on the successful surgery she underwent to replace one of her knees. At 82 she was delighted to be pain free and resume her regular activities after years of degenerative arthritis. She described the technology used in the operation in almost reverential terms. Truly, we are living in an amazing world, full of wonderful possibilities. Technology in […]

Starbucks will give me 10 cents off my next drink if I bring in a reusable tumbler and save a paper cup. Their advertising blurb encourages me to think of the effect on the environment if thousands of people traded their paper cups for Starbucks’ reusable mugs. Retailers are feeling increasingly charitable these days. The […]

Saturday morning I received an email informing me that one of my favorite clients had died during the night. While not completely unexpected, as he had been seriously ill with cancer, the news was jarring. I was suddenly glad that recently he had not wanted to see any visitors. I wanted to remember him as […]

While in England recently I visited Buckland Abbey in Yelverton, Devon, the home of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596). As every English schoolboy knows Drake is famous for successfully raiding Spanish ships loaded with treasure from the New World, being the first man to circumnavigate the globe, and helping to defeat the Spanish Armada. Of course, […]

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Malcolm’s Corner is the personal blogging site of Malcolm Greenhill, President of Sterling Futures, a fee-based financial advisory firm in San Francisco, California, working with individuals and small businesses in multiple states.

I write about wealth related issues in the broadest sense of the word. The origin of the word “wealth” is the old English word “wela” meaning welfare or well-being. As recently as a century ago the word was generally understood to mean a person’s all round well-being, including health, family, work and spiritual life.

When I am not writing, reading, working and spending time with family, I try to spend as much time as possible hiking and backpacking in the wilderness.

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